482 reviews for:

Nightbloom

Peace Adzo Medie

3.99 AVERAGE

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The book started strong, but by the time it got to the portion around Selasi’s fight with the minister. It felt like it dragged. The ending felt anticlimactic for a book being about their relationship 

A hilarious and heartbreaking dual narrative from the perspectives of two cousins who have differing memories of their upbringing.
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I give this a 3.9 it was fun, fast and gripping as usual from Peace Adzo Medzie, and full of all the drama its like an eʋe/ghanaian  soap opera! The characters all had qualities and flaws and my feelings changed often for all of them. Overall this was a good read.
emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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prose is not engaging me
dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I found the first half of the book pretty interesting and enjoyed both Akorfa and Selasi’s pov however the story started to drag once I got to Chapter 14, specifically the debacle between Selasi and the Minister. After a while I became uninterested and felt the book was longer than it needed to be. I also think I might have liked it a little bit more if the different povs were told simultaneously 

Throughout the narration I kept on thinking how both cousins have such a different version of the same events and really saw how privilege (or lack of it), selfishness and other people’s influence (i.e. Akorfa’s mother Lucy) can influence one’s perception.

Overall, the book definitely held my attention and I still enjoyed it for the most part. 
challenging emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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emotional medium-paced
challenging emotional sad slow-paced